Riches are for spending.
It is natural to die as to be born.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
For knowledge itself is power.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
See, I think you live on earth a certain number of times until you finish what it is that you were meant to do here. And then you go on. I don’t think I’ll be back here. I think I’m done.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. In time, you are made to realize that the kindness done you is become a curse and you wish it had not happened.
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Be a rainbow in someone elses cloud.
